Reverend Luke Murphy appropriates corporate visual rhetoric to explore abstract concepts like fear and shame....it's too funny not to share
http://therecord.blogs.com/withinearshot/2009/02/the-pooptoshame-ratio-and-other-highlights-of-the-best-lecture-ever.html
Nat: this is great--who doesn't think poop is funny?
ReplyDeleteI really like this appropriation of business-model information visuals (not to suggest, of course, that only the business world uses them). What is most interesting, I think, is the last two graphs: their level of "sophistication" and unconventional amorphous shapes suggest to me the limits of conventional information visuals. I'm reminded of Bacon's insistence that matter takes precedence over words--it seems that this tradition lives on in much of our traditional presentation visuals--clarity and simplicity are primary virtues. Murphy's work also really highlights the strict division we have constructed between so-called utilitarian uses of images vs. "visual art."
Thanks--this is great!
What's funny is that when I found it I literally thought "this is the kind of crazy thing Josh would post up on his Facebook wall" :)
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